Bohemian Texas Street Home Fashion Show, Luminaria Festival, San Antonio, Texas, 2014

Daniel González D.G. Clothes Project
Bohemian Texas Street Home Fashion Show
Luminaria Festival, November 7th – 8th, 2014

Cross-roads, inside-out, social involvement

Daniel González was invited by Noah Khoshbin, curator of Robert Wilson Watermill Center (Long Island, NY) to 2014 edition of Luminaria Festival, San Antonio, Texas with the performance Bohemian Texas Street Home Fashion Show.
Bohemian Texas Street Home Fashion Show is an appropriation act of the streets of San Antonio through a high-impact performance during the nights of Luminaria Festival.
Bohemian Texas Street Home Fashion Show is a project that gives citizens and social communities of San Antonio the opportunity to share a piece of their domestic life and to dissolve the boundaries between public and private.
Ten women walked g down a red carpet placed on a San Antonio street, wearing black clothes and Daniel González D.G. Clothes Project sculpture-shoes. Chandeliers and lamps hanging on or carried by the performers. The lamps were strategically placed to illuminate the sculpture-shoes as makeshift spotlights.
Turning meanings and roles upside-down, Daniel González takes everyday objects that are normally connected to daily gestures inside private spaces and brings them outside on the street. This action changes commonly accepted conventions that assume preconceived roles for everything that surrounds us: what was once domestic becomes public but it still carries with it the memory of its private life. What was simply useful becomes the archetype of beauty by changing context.
Daniel González invited each citizen to bring a lamp from home to be part of the performing event. Whether these lamps were bought or given as a present, whether they are new or old, transcending taste and category, they will all be stars on the streets of San Antonio.

music by Ninos Du Brasil
photo credits Daniel González D.G. Clothes Project